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The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
Truth is sighty and Win Ptevail,

The fact that retail shoe men always
war baggard AID wee be gone expires.
sion Of counteesnce, he's frequently been
commented upon, but the cause uaac
counted FOR.
Recent confessions, however, convey the
intelligence that this de plorable condition
is due 10 their effort TO fit their women
customers with number FIVE feet, W ID
nun Der two shoes.
Persons who have interviewed dealers,
in order to get the average size OF g
woman's feet in certain localities, received
the steIeOtyped answer: I'VE sell from
ores TO threts, ss a general thing" It's
said that a drummer for an Indianapolis
Wholesale house, IL an unguarded moment
acknowle( ged that he sold number fives
and skies 10 Kokomo merchants. Where
is that drummer now? What become of
the man vho betrayed the Masons? Ask
the stars
But to resume. The retail dealers are
themselves sgain. They can stand up like
mtn and speak the truth boldly and fear
lessly, fer the simple reason that Wash
ingtoD City shoe man has proclaimed the
fact, and it has been wired to every town
in the United Srates that Mrs. Cleveland
wears 8 number FIVE shoe, and now the
fashionable young lady unblushingIy says:
81 wear good, large number fye-and so
does Mrs. Cleveland
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10

There WIS once little maiden,
And "KRty" was her name;
For modest worth and beauty
She had an enYious fame.
This sprightly little lady,
Among the wild flowers grew,
On her face the suns bright glanees,
On her lips the honey dew.
From flower TO flower she fluttered,
Slipping sweets from morn 10 morn.
her life was brightest sunshine,
No rose for her had thorn.
Ikea bright and beautious vision,
Like a star of pBrest light,
From that world of best elysisn,
When dag excludes the night.
She came to cheer and brighten
This world of toll and care,
And shed pure rays of sunshine
Around her everywhere.
She had suitOrs true and gentle,
But she bafhed them for long;
Her heart was filfd With natures love,
And poetry and song.
For long she wandered fancy free,
From cupid'S arrows hid,
But at last sweet Katy" found her prince,
And then, sweet "Katydid."
w.D.K EER.
Canuron Springs, July 1857,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10

1t is said that one of the most prominent
judges in the south became miserable,
worthless sot and remained so for sixteen
years. They gave him Moxie Nerve Food
and it completely removed his uncontroll-
able appetite for liquors and has not re-
turned since. He is rapidly getting back
to his old business and responsibility. If
this food can do that, there is not drunk
ard who hears of it that has the least par
ticle of excuse for being fool.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
Batdeeds Of pity, faith and trust,

Bgtdeeds of pity, faith and trust,
No storms Of tate can sweep away.
Their base stands on the rock OF right,
Their apex reachesto the skies;
They glow with the Increasing light
OF ali the circling centuries.
Our building must be good or bad;
In words we speak, in deeds we do;
On sand or granite must be laid
The shaft that shows US false or true.
How do we build-whar can we show
For hours and days and years of toll?
Is the foundation firm below?
Is 1ton rock or sandy soil?
The hand that lifts the fallen up,
That heals a heart or binds wound;
That gives the needed crust and cup,
Is building upon solid ground.
Is there block of stainless white
Within the monumental wall,
On which the sculptured skill can write,
HE bulIded well, so should we all"
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
The High-BoundiDE BrOncho.


Dakota Bell.
There was young man who came out to the
West
Came out from the East that is shop-worn and
busted
And much there occurred that troubled his rest
But chiefest of these was the broncho he
trusted
For that broncho ne bueked, and that borneho
he tore;
He tipped mp behind aud he resTed up before
THIS self;rising broneho, this rip-snortng
This brOncho which made the young man so
disgusted
He mounted the eritter to take q short ride,
And tiled to start of with Central Park trOt
But that bIoncho had cussedness stored in his
hide,
And mentally whispered he guessed he would
not,
TEen he crooked up his back with tertibl
hump,
Got up on MS hind legs and proceeded to jump
And the young man shot through the atmos-
pierre
Away toward the armament calm and clear,
Far uB among The stars so high,
That nightly wheel athwart the sky;
Up from this world of doubt and care:
ID from where bronchOs pitch and tear
This high flying young man, this sky-scraping
young man,
This young man who mounted the broncho
which seemed hun in the air.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
pehafpPaJnbiI6a.

Two Scotch fishwlves in London were
talking about the jubilee the other day
'Eh, wumman," said one 10 the other,
can ye tell me what jubilee is, for 1
hear a the folk spakin' ABBOTT it2" "Ou
ay," replied the other, 81 can tell ye that
ye see, when man and a wumman has
been marrit for five.and twenty year, THAT'S
a siller we6din'; and when they have been
merrit for fifty year, that's gouden wed.
din; but when the mans deed, that's a
Jubilee -
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
"A New Craze.

The craze for making rag rugs" is fast
assuming the proportions to which the
cray quilt fever had risen. To see the
vast army of sweet young fsshionab
daintny joining bright, pretty rags to-
gether 70 be woven into a soft mat for
bone adornment is almost enough to be-
fiddle the brain of many an g bserver and
set them 70 wondering whether this is
really the nineteenth century, or a step
backward into the primitive DAYS when
the country was new and maidens fair
were won't to "weaye the warp and weav e
the wool" 1t is one of the few ''crazes'
which the dear girls adopt that will bring
CONNER dation from their elders and from
that portion of the masculine fraternity
who are apt to scoff e. all ideas and fancies
which the effeminate world adopt.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
Only Women, Indeed.
Pail Mall Gazette.I

On late Sunday I Was taken by my Two
Anglican sisters to a well known church
in South Kensington to hear cultivated
and clever clergyman" preach, in the hope
that the critical habit of my unreasonably
reasonable miLd might be checked. The
clergyman did not appear, bat q curate
did-a yOuDgster all zeal, bad English and
worse taste. quote you one phrsze. and
spare you the others equally remarkable:
even you, my sisters though only
women, may yet find some duty to per
FORM" Evidently his mother had failed
in hers, and l looked around the church to
see how my fellow. sufferers took so odd a
remark. Not q sign of surprise, annoyance
or amusement; silence de mort, and faces
to match. l forgave "the green in judge
ment" on the spot, for he knew his aadi-
erce and I did not.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
Mid hedges green / seem to pass,
Building Monuments.

lChristian Intelligencer.l
Through life we build our monuments
OF hon or, and perhaps of fame;
The little and the great events
Are blocks Of glory or Of shame.
The modest, humble and obscure,
Living unnoticed and unknown
Nav raise a shaft that will endure
Longer than pyramids of stone.
The caryen statue turns 10 dust,
And marble ohelisks decay,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
WOMAN.
An Invalid's Reverie.


lCassell's Family Magazine
One who has been where l have been
OF old, but nevermOre may be,
One whom i never yet have seen,
And in this world may never see,
Has brought fresh flowers to me.
And looking at these blossoms bright,
think Of other scenes and hours,
And see with retrospective sight,
Fair cultured blooms, aud sweet wild howe n
Abloom in natures bowers.
Mid hedges green seem to pass,
Where fox gloves rise, aud blue bells ring;
And over daisy dappled grass.
Where buttercups are blossoming,
stray where glad birds sing.
In clusters fair on prickly boughs
The fragrant hawthorne bosom blows;
Through level fields, where cattle browse,
The winding, purling river flows
And slowly seward goes.
] seem TO hear the mellow notes
By which we mark the cuckoo flight,
And hear, from countless festhered throats
The warbled lays of swee. delight
That cease not till the night.
Above, around, all things are fair
Or fancy paints them SO for me,
Who only seer these flowers so rare,
Yet charmed and gladcened, seem TO see
Scenes lit by memory.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
Financial Record.
The railroads have all raised the rate of their

The railroads have all raised the rate of their
freight
On account of tie interstate law:
So it costs more to carry the usual weight,
And the grocei Y staples are higher at daUe,
On account of the interstate law.
How transparent for railroads TO raise on the
price,
And try to bamboozle with such devicei
Small shippers have always been left in the
rear,
So we needed the inter state law;
But the railroads say to the favOrites "Here,
Wen fix the thing ~ in the tariff, don't lear,
In spite OF the interstate law"
But the people are earnestly crying out, "St0 p
Give us fair play for al or you'n hear some
thing drop"
American Grocer.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
Mexican War Veteran,

The wonderful efficacy Of swift's Specific as
eases, has had conspicuous illustration
than this case affords. The candid unsolicited ard
emphatic testimony given hg the venerable gentle
must be accepted as convincing and conclusive.
The write prominent citizen of Mississippi. The
gentlema .ghom Mr.. Martin refers, and to whom
he is ind for the advice to which he owes his
final rel, IN years of suffering, is Mr.. King. for
House, at Jackson.
JAcKsox, Miss, April 90. 1857.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC COMPANY, Atlanta Ca:
Gentlemen-I have been an invalid pensioner for
forty years. having contracted pulmonary and other
diseases in the Mexican War; but not till the LIST OF
March, 1875, did feel any symptoms of rheumatism
On that day was suddenly stricken with that dis
ease in both hips and ankles. For twenty days
walked crutches. Then the pain was less violent,
It shifted from joint joint. For weeks would
be totally disabled either on one side or my body
the other. The, pain never left me moment for
eleven years and seven monthsIthat Is from March
when was cured. During these eleven years OF In
tense suffering / tried innumerable prescriptions
Fested Slq&s s liS
ternally, am not aware OF It. Finally, about the
first OF September, made arrangements 10 go 10 the
Other iremedy when Iaccidenfaiiy met an old ae-
Quaintance, Mr.. King, now OF the Lawrence House
OF this CITY, He had once been great sufferer from
rheumatism and, as supposed, had been cured
told that his visit the Hot Springs in vain
he found no relief. On his return from Hot Springs
he heard for the first time OF the s. s. s. as remedy
for rheumatism. He tried Il and six bottles made
complete cure Several years have passed SINCE but
he has had no return of the disease.
Immediately returned TO try it.. In September
took four bottles and by the first Of October was
well-as far as the rheumatism was concerned. All
pain had disappeared, and HAVE NOT FELT A TwIseK
OF sINck.
have no interest In making this statement other
than the hope that IL may direct some other sufferer
to q sure source of relief and IL t has this result
am well rewarded for my trouble. am very re-
]. II. II. MARTIN.
For sale by all druggists. Treatise on Blood and
shin Diseases mailed free.
TIE SWIFT SPECIFIC Co.,
Drawer 3 Atlanta Go
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
A Big Gorilla Landed.
Boston Special

The largest gorilla ever landed in this
country was passenger on the bark White
Cloud, which arrived yesterday from the
coast Of Africa. His ugliness was very
savage, but he was transferred from the
vessel to his den in the Worlds Museum
without great trouble.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10

health and strict observance OF them might
be strong and healthy and lifted for her
responsible and arduous duties. Some one
has said: He, who is not G physician at
thirty is fool-s physician to his mind as
to his body, acquainted vito his own moral
constitution-iIs diseases, its remedies, its
diet its conduct
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
POETRY OF THE PERIOD.
all Q Mischief.
What

The grocers nave,t price of their tea,
ON account OF theiase state law;
And doctors, they say, nave doubled their fee,
And the air of heaven very soon won't be free,
On account of the interstate law.
How convenient 1t is, when you raise on your
price,
To bamboozie your patrons with such devicel
The tailor puts up the price of your coat,
o. account of the Interstate law;
And the interest is raised per cent. on your
note,
And the heller has raised the price of his vote,
On account of the interstate law
But what is this law that our income all melts?
We don't know what it is. Nor does any one
else.
-Flnaneial Reeord,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
Easily Accounted For.

Mabel (innocently) CLARA, is that Mr..
Twiddlestone an Epglishman2
Clara-No, dear; be was born in Boston.
Mabel-Then where did he get that
strong English accent?
Clara-He lived six months in New York,
darling.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
YelIer Voices.

[Norristown Herald.l
A Chicago man says be never saw cat
with blue eyes, and offers $3.50 for one.
Cats with blue eyes may be scarce, but III
he wants score or two Of cats with yeller
voices, let him visit this town,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10

We will furnish MONEY for LOANS
on Real Estate promptly. Write US for
terms, describing the secur ty-
We will give careful attention to the
management Of Estates and investment
of Endowment Funds. We have had
twenty. FIVE years experience, without
the loss of dollar to any patron.
THOS. c. DAY CO.,
II East Market ST., Indianapolis, Ind.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
a Woman Made Deacon in the Episcopal
Church.


New York Letter in Boston Eerald.l
enc very novel outgrowth of the mission
labor Of st. Georges Church has been the
revival of the old Ecclesiastical office of
Deaconess. DR.. Rainsford saw the value
of such an Office. So, after having dis
appeared from the church for centuries,
St. Georges parish has witnessed the reap
peerance of this functionaTy. MisS Julia
ForneIet, Canadian lady Of the Utmost
zeal and devotion, was sOlemnly "set
apart" by Rev. Mr.. RaInsford tor eysngeli-
cal work. word and deed. The visitation
Of the sick, inquiry into the needs Of the
POOR, helping hand for the myriad all
nents which run from basement to garrett,
o. rather to the roof top, in crowded tene-
ment houses of the city, is what Deacon
ess ForIeret has embraced IS her life
work. To DO good is her profession. Fer
predecessors .sDd prototypes in apostolic
days also busted themselves in minister
ing to the corporal leeds of the disciples
OF Christ. In those simple, fresh days Of
Christianity, this was work of love and
pious zeal that commended itself to the
body of The faithful. But modern times
supply this function of the deaconess by
the venal toll Of "hiTed help"
II Is certainly new aud distinct dePsr-
lure u the Episcopal Church to cOnsecrate
and employ CeaeDnetses in its labOrs Miss
ForneIet enjoys the honor of reviving in
her person this apostolic privilege of Eer
sax. Mr.. Rainsford is hopeful that other
pious ladies will soon follow in the foot
steps of such pTaiseworthy example.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
Canuron Springs, July 1857.
Roses.

lIcmple Bar.
Let me live where the roses grow,
Let them their fresh green branches throw
Around my mound in the grass.
let them lit in their fullest glow,
Their faces high to laugh and show
A welcome 70 those who psss,
But let no sound by me be heard;
Babble of stream or song Of bird,
Be stilled in the calm eArth's breast.
in the quiet gloom let me lie,
When the tired ear and weary eye
May take their well-earned reSts
The day is gone, SO long and drear;
Sweet 1t is to be resting here,
In the long ana silent night.
For fear ana grief away are swept;
Bitter tears are no longer Wept,
While wait for endless light.
Light to reveal the cherished dead
In lands from which all ills have fed,
And the ruins which death has made.
Lands which ever shall hear a sign,
In which moth. ng but death shall die
And the roses never fade.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
FIorencs In the Country.

Uncle John Ito his niece who is visiting
him from Boston, And so you have been
out to see the COWS Florence?
Florence-Yes, uncle; and L think that
great big curly-headed COW is just lovely.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
Loo Ice C-r-e-a.m Cream.

They were walking down Washington ST.,
She remarked, "HOw / suffer with hit. )"
And spelled all the signs,
But he hadn't the dimes:
So now they don't speak when they mt,
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
When Nature VVeeps.

The Judge
It is said that Nature shudders
When woman throws a stone,
And that when she sharpens pencils
Then all Nature gives groan.
But there's nothing that gives Nature
More keen anguish and distress
Than to see struggling father
With babe he dries 10 dress.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
American Honnan.


Here are few sensible reflections upon
the physical condition of American
women well worth reading: The want of
physical exercise by American girls while
growing op is one cause of their premature
old age. Much of the insanity that affects
our women is attributed by physicians to
want of bodily outdoor exercise in child
hood and the precocious development of
mind. The indoor labor performed by
many American women is astonishing
What affects the body influences the
mind. When enc is worn and irritated it
acts on the other. English women usually
have better servants and more of them.
They are trained thoroughly for the spe-
cial departments of house and kitchen
work. English women walk and ride
more, marry later, and have by nature
better Observation-Disclosures Trib-
uDe.
American women marry too early aud
live too secluded. Many are scarce ~ out
of school before they have settled down as
wives and housekeepers. The cares OF q
family are devolvipg on them be-
fore they have the strength and
nerve to perform them. One reason that
our female ancestors lasted longer and had
better health was that their minds were not
90 much taxed nor the nerves 30 highly
strung. Most American men are so alb
sorbed in business they have not time to
relieve their wives at all of domestic cares,
and fail to give them encouragement and
friendly advice. The want of congeniality
in the dispositions of husbands and wives,
and the customs of social life, often pro-
duce discord in the home circle that Is
detrimental to health. With the ancients
physical culture first received attention,
then moral, then mental. The American
girls have fairer. fresher appearance from
sixteen 70 eign.sen years Oh age tnan Tor
not enough of the laws that govern health
and of the diseases incident to their sex
and children. How often do we see peev-
ishness manifested by q zickly wife and
mother Who, by menlsdgs VI the AFse Of
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
OuatrRine.
Boston Courier.l


Boston Courier.l
THR OFFICES OF LOVE.
Age rocks the cradle till the balm of sleep
Upon the lily lids of childhood lies,
Youth guides the tottering step adoWn the
steep
OF life and gently closes Ages eyes.
KlsMET.
Some lives are like a day with rose hued morn,
Bright noon, and eve of amber-tinted skies,
And some like TO a day midst tempest born,
And gloom enshrouded till in storm 1t dies.
WOMAN.
woman's heart with kindly pity glows,
And quickly shows the sympathy it feels.
SHE drops the tear of grief for others woes
And with a smile her ewn heartache conceals.
THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE.
He who would grind his fellows meath his feet,
Would bully, tyrannize, and Overbear,
Some cay will with stronger tyTant meet
And be compelled his CALLING yoke to wear.
The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-10
Advice to Girls.

This is some advice in the Woman's
Home Journal: Girls, don't marry a man
for money, position, or any thing but love
Don't do it if you want to live to good
old age and be happy. You may think
that money can bring you all you desire
but 1t can I. That is where you are mis-
taken. 1t can buy good many things,
but it can never purchase cOntentment for
your heart or happiness for your soul. 1t
may bring tempory smiles to your face,
but 1t will leave great shadows in your
heart. Don't think that | would advise
you to marry a worthless fellow, Just be-
cause you imagine you love him,
refined, good, intelligent woman should
never marry vulgar, i'll bred man. No,
no; never unite yourself to any one who is
not a man in tie truest mean
ing of the word. Neither could
who had no visible means of sup
porting her, but for heavens sake don't
marry a millionaire or king, if you don't
love him. 1t will not do. People have
tried 1t time and again, only 70 find it q
miserable failure. 1t may do for while.
You may revel in gilded halls and be lost
in the giddy rounds of pleasure, but a
time will come when these things will be
q hollow mockery to you. There will be
an ''aching void" the world can never fill.
Sometimes mothers are to blame for the
unhappiness of their daughters. They
teach them that respect for their husband
and lots of "boodle" are infinitely to be
preferred to that foolishness called love.
That would do very well if life had no
waves of trouble, but it takes something
more than simple respect to make two
hearts cling together in the hour of ad-
versity. a woman that turns her back on
wealth and takes the man of her choice
may miss some of the luxuries of life, bat
she VIII be happy. Don't marry a dade
Better get you monkey. 1t is cheaper
and great deal nicer. Don't fool with
that class of animals. They generally
wear $40 hat on q ten cent brain, and the
woman who takes one of these chaps will
get left about as bad as the Southern Con
federscy did at Appomattox.